Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

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

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.