We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.