The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

We pardon as long as we love.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.