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

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.