Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

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

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.