In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.