The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

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 accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.