He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

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

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.