There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.