Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.