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

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.