The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.