Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.