Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

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

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

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.