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

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

Change, change,--we all covet change.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

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