Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.

To appear rich, we become poor.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.