Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.