The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.