The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

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.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.