There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.