Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

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.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.