If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.