Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.