The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.
If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.