We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.