“The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.”

“Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.”

“Tears may be dried up, but the heart--never.”

“A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself”

“Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.”

“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”

“We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”