Only the great can afford to have great defects.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.