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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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