There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.