When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.