The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.