Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.