The passions often engender their contraries.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.