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

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.

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

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

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

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

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.