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

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.