Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.