We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.