Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

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

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.