Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

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.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.