You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Chance generally favors the prudent.