Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

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

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

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

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

Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.