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

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.