Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.