The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

Nothing is so contagious as example.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.