History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Women read each other at a single glance.
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.