The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

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.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.