The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
Women read each other at a single glance.
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.