Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

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

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.