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

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.