No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.