A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.