There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

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