He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

Half talent is no talent.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.