Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.