It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.