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

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

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

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.