The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

Well I've had a happy life.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.