Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.