Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.