Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.