The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

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

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

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

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

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