Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

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

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

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

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.