The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

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

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.