Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.