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

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.