True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth