The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

Clever tyrants are never punished.