There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.

We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.