No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

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

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.