In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

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

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.