Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.