There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.