In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.