Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.