Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

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.

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

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

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

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.