The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.