Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.