The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

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.

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.