The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.