Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.