There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.
Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.
In love, the quickest is always the best cure.
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.
If a man doesn’t find ease in himself, ’tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.
The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.
Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.