Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.