Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.