It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.