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.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

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

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.