His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.

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

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.