Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

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

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.