Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.