Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

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

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

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.