As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.