Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.