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

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

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

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

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.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

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