Continuous eloquence is tedious.

Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.