The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.