The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.