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

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

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

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

The only security is courage.