Taste may change, but inclination never.

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.