The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.