The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.