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

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.