Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.
Jean de la BruyereAvoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la BruyereLife at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
Jean de la BruyereA good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.
Jean de la Bruyere