Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.