One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.