Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

The only security is courage.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.