Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

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.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.