Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.