If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.