The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Be the flame, not the moth.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.