The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.