There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.