Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.