It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.