Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.