The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Courage is adversity's lamp.
Constancy is the chimera of love.
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.