Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.
There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.