Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

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.

But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.

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

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.

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