Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.