Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.