Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.