True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.