We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.