We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.