Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.