As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.