The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

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

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.