Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.