As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.