What isn’t clear, isn’t French.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

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

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.