It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.