One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.