Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.