Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

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