To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

She commands who is blest with indifference.