It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.