Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.