Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.