The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.
Esteem never makes ingrates.
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.