Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.