We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.