We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

God made only water, but man made wine.

A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity and can belabour that.

It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live.