The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.