True friendship is never serene.

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

We are always on the side of those who speak last.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

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

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.