We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.