People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

Hope and fear are inseparable.