We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse..

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post..

the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself;….

long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the pla….

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it..

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues..

I pity those who have no taste for reading..

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant..

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, h….

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it..

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives..

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often e….

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living..

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long..

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night..

The human heart will never wrinkle.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection..

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it..

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves..

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions..