Few Know How To Be Old.

There Are Some People Upon Whom Their Very Faults And Failings Sit Gracefully; And There Are Others Whose Very Excellencies And Accomplishments Do Not Become Them.

A Man Is Sometimes Better Off Deceived About The One He Loves, Than Undeceived.

Whatever Pretext We May Give For Our Affections, Often It Is Only Interest And Vanity Which Cause Them.

Avarice Is More Opposite To Economy Than Liberality.

The Most Subtle Of Our Acts Is To Simulate Blindness For Snares That We Know Are Set For Us.