Even women are perfect at the outset.

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

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

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.