Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

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.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.