Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.