Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.