Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.