Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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