Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
It is easier to win love than to keep it.
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
Tact is good taste in action.
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.