"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."

"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."

"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"

"How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?"

"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."

"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else."

"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."

"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."

"If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us."

"If we had no faults of our own, we should not take half so much satisfaction in observing those of other people."

"If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection."

"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"In love we often doubt what we most believe."

"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."

"It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend."

"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."

"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."

"It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit."

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."

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

"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."

"Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding."

"Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love."

"Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it."

"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."

"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."

"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."

"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."

"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."

"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."

"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

"Self-love is the greatest flatterer in the world."

"Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of."

"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."

"Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while."

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."