“Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.”

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”

“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.”

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”

“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. ”