It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

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

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.