Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.