Vices are often habits rather than passions.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

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

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

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.