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

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.