The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Not kill us, " Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.

Freedom is control in your own life.

You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

I don't live for glamor and I don't care for fame, I'm in it for the love of the game

The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.

Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.