Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

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.