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

“Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.”

“People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.”

“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”

“We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.”

“Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.”

“It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.”

“My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.”