One may outwit another, but not all the others.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

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.

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 with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

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

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.