We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.