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

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

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.