What isn’t clear, isn’t French.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.