Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.