Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.