When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.