People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.