We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.