No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

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

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.