Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.