To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.