Death makes us all equal.

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.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.