Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.