We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.