Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.
A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.