Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.