Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
Great men, like nature, use simple language.
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.