When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

To love is to choose.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.