What isn’t clear, isn’t French.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.