Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.