Consciousness of our strength increases it.

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.