No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

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

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.