Constancy is the chimera of love.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

Patience is the art of hoping.

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.