A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.
We pardon as long as we love.
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.