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

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.