If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.