Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.