All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

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.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.