The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.