“Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”

“All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”

“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”

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

“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”

“It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it”

“In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.”