Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.