You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.