The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.