Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.