What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.