He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more..

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless..

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend..

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them..

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life..