It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

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

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.