Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

The unhappy never want enemies.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.