Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.