Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.