The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.