The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

What I value most next to eternity is time.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.