Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment