In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

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

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.