Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.