Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.