Death makes us all equal.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

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: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

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

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