no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Curiosity is its own suicide.