Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.