We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.