She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm; but, like the mirage in the desert, she tantalizes us with a delusion that distance creates, and that contiguity destroys.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.