Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.