Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

As love increases, prudence diminishes.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.