Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

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

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.