No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

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

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.