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.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

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

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.