Hope and fear are inseparable.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

The only thing constant in life is change

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]