Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.