“When not prompted by vanity, we say little.”

“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”

“It is a kind of happiness to know just how unhappy we could be.”

“Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”

“He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.”

“All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”

“It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it”