To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

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.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.