I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.