How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.