If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.