It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.