Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

We pardon to the extent that we love.