We are all very ready to believe what we like.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

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

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

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

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.