Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

True friendship is never serene.