It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
The war existing between the senses and reason.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.