There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.