Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.