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.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

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

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.