The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.