Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.