His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.