Nothing makes men sharper than want.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.