One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

Nothing is so contagious as example.