Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.