If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

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.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

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

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

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.

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