We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

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.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.