Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.