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.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

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

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

There is no magician like love.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.