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.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.