We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.