Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

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

Even women are perfect at the outset.