Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.