False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.