Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

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

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.