True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

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