Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.