Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
My trade and art is to live.
Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Not being able to govern events I govern myself.
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
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.
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.
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.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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.