It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

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.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.