If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity