Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.