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

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.