Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

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

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.