Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

We forgive just so long as we love.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.