Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.