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

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.

Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

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.