True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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.
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
