Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

Women read each other at a single glance.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.