Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

Friends should be preferred to kings.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.