Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.