One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.