There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.