When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

Hatred is stronger than friendship.