The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And talk nonsense. When we get home we are conscious that we Have made fools of ourselves. Never go near these people.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.