We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.