Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

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.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever