A weak and foolish heart gives way to the doubt at once; not so the subtler and more powerful,--it rather, on the contrary, recalls all the little circumstances that justify trust and make head against suspicion; it will not render the citadel at the mere sound of the trumpet; it arms all its forces, and bars its gates on the foe.

Hence it is that the persons most easy to dupe in matters of affection are usually those most astute in the larger affairs of life.

Moliere, reading every riddle in the vast complexities of human character, and clinging, in self-imposed credulity, to his profligate wife, is a type of a striking truth.

Still, a foreboding, a warning instinct withheld Lucretia from plumbing farther into the deeps of her own fears.

So horrible was the thought that she had been deceived, that rather than face it, she would have preferred to deceive herself.
This poor, bad heart shrank from inquiry, it trembled at the idea of condemnation.