There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.