A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.