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

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.