Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

We always like those who admire us.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.