We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.