The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
(About Equality)

 

I am glad I am not a man, for if I were I should be obliged to marry a woman.
(About Marriage)

 

Sow good services; Sweet remembrances will grow from them.

 

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end..

 

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.
(About Relationsships)

 

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

 

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

 

Wit lies in recognising the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

 

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies "God in us."
(About Enthusiasm)

 

What we ask of education is not that girls should think but that they should believe.
(Considerations upon the French Revolution)

 

Architecture is frozen music.

 

The greatest faculties of the soul are developed only by suffering, and this purification of ourselves restores us after a time, to happiness; for the circle closes up again, and carries us back to those days of innocence which preceded our faults.
(Reflections on Suicide )

 

Happiness is so composed of relative sensations, that it is not things in themselves, but their connections with yesterday and tomorrow, which affects the imagination. If destiny or the menaces of a tyrant have led a man to apprehend a certain degree of unhappiness, and he learns that he is to be spared the half of what he dreaded, his impressions will be very different from those he would have experienced, if he had not suffered so great a terror. Destiny has almost always much to do in the composition of our miseries.
(Reflections on Suicide )

 

Happiness consists in a destiny harmonizing with our faculties. Our desires are the offspring of the moment, and often are of fatal consequence to us; but our faculties are permanent, and their necessities are unceasing; hence the conquest of the world may have been as necessary to Alexander, as the possession of a cottage to a shepherd.
(Reflections on Suicide )

 

When we are treated as enemies by destiny we have a right to endeavor to escape its malignity: and yet the regulator which determines the result of this balance is entirely within ourselves: the same sort of life, which reduces one to despair, would fill another with joy, who is placed in a sphere of less elevated hopes.
(Reflections on Suicide )

 

...of all the limits of the understanding, the most grievous is that which prevents us from comprehending one another.
(Reflections on Suicide )