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

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.