Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

The unhappy never want enemies.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.