Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.