The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.