You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.