Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.