In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.