There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.