One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Great men should not have great faults.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.