The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!