There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

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 uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.