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

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.