Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
Wit does not take the place of knowledge.
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
All grand thoughts come from the heart.