It Requires Greater Virtues To Support Good

The Shame That Arises From Praise Which We Do Not Deserve Often Makes Us Do Things We Should Otherwise Never Have Attempted.

Few Things Are Impossible In Themselves: Application To Make Them Succeed Fails Us More Often Than The Means.

It Is Easier To Fall In Love When You Are Out Of It Than To Get Out Of It When You Are In.

Old Men Delight In Giving Good Advice As A Consolation For The Fact That They Can No Longer Set Bad Examples.

Nature Seems At Each Man's Birth To Have Marked Out The Bounds Of His Virtues And Vices, And To Have Determined How Good Or How Wicked That Man Shall Be Capable Of Being.