Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.