Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.