In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

We pardon as long as we love.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.