Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.