We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.