“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it”

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience”

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth”

“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”

“He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss”

“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams”