The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.