What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.