The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.