 Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. |
| Vices are often habits rather than passions. |
| Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. |
| To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. |
| Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. |
| Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. |
| It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. |
| Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. |
| Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. |
| Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. |
| The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. |
| Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. |
| Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. |
| It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it. |
