We always get bored with those whom we bore.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

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

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.