Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.