In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.