The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.