Great thoughts come from the heart

Mn's thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Few maxims are true in every respect

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one appreciates them

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization

Habit is everything, even in love

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition