Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you'll do well in the world.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

I'd rather play a maid than be one.

You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.