Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.