Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.