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

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

History is but a confused heap of facts.