Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.