“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.”

“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”

“In love we often doubt what we most believe.”

“The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater part of our confidence.”

“We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”.”

“There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.”