Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.