We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

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

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

The world has no long injustices.

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.

. . . 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 . . .

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