The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.