There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.