The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.