He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.