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.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

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

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.