The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.