“A person can’t help their birth.”

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Frequent the company of your betters.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.