Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.