A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.