Habit is everything, even in love.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.