Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.