Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

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

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.