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.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society