All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.