The human heart will never wrinkle

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself; in vain I endeavor to stop him, he drags me along: the thought of this alarms me.

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.