It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.