People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.