It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

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

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.