The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.