One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.