Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.