No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

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

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever