In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

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

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

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

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.