To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.