Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

God made me and broke the mold.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.