All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.