Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

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

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.