It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

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

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.