Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.