It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.