The only thing constant in life is change

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.