If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.