Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.