There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.