The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.