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

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.