There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

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

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.