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

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.