Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.