There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.