Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.