Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

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