To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

A modest man never talks of himself.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.