Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

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