One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.