The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.