Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.