What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.