Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
Dignity and love do not blend.
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.
Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.