It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

Pray for your own deliverance from your own vicious thoughts.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

A very ancient and fish-like smell.