The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

The world is governed by love,--self-love.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.