Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.