The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

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.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.