The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

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.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.