Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.