A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.