We must cultivate our own garden.
If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity