The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.