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

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.