A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

When we have got it, we want something else.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.