Taste may change, but inclination never.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.