Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.