No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully