Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.