The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.