Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.