When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.