We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.