Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.