Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.