It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

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.

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

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.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.