In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.