Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.