It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.