When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?