A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.