Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

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.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.