How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.