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

Slander is the balm of malignity.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

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

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.

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