The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

The only thing constant in life is change

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.