Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.