Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.