I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

Truth allows no choice.

A vow is a snare for sin

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.