Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

One honor won is a surety for more.

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.

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

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.