There Are Some Good Marriages, But Practically

It Is Harder To Hide The Feelings We Have Than To Feign The Ones We Do Not Have.

When Great Men Permit Themselves To Be Cast Down By The Continuance Of Misfortune, They Show Us That They Were Only Sustained By Ambition, And Not By Their Mind; So That Plus A Great Vanity, Heroes Are Made Like Other Men.

However Rare True Love May Be, It Is Less So Than True Friendship.

What Is Called Liberality Is Often Merely The Vanity Of Giving.

Whatever Distrust We May Have Of The Sincerity Of Those Who Converse With Us, We Always Believe They Will Tell Us More Truth Than They Do To Others.