To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
What isn’t clear, isn’t French.
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
The world is governed by love,--self-love.
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.