It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.