Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

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

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.