The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.