Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.