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

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

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.