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.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.