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.Collection: Men
The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.Collection: Greatness
He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.Collection: Confidence
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.Collection: Passion
Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.Collection: Rose