Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

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

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.