The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.