One Honor Won Is A Surety For

Constancy In Love Is A Perpetual Inconstancy Which Fixes Our Hearts Successively To All The Qualities Of The Person Loved--sometimes Admiring One And Sometimes Another Above All The Rest--so That This Constancy Roves As Far As It Can, And Is No Better Than Inconstancy, Confined Within The Compass Of One Person.

Praise Is A More Ingenious, Concealed, And Subtle Kind Of Flattery, That Satisfies Both The Giver And The Receiver, Though By Verydifferent Ways. The One Accepts It As A Reward Due To His Merit; The Other Gives It That He May Be Looked Upon As A Just And Discerning Person.

A Man, In Order To Establish Himself In The World, Does Everything He Can To Appear Established There.

What Renders Other People's Vanity Insufferable Is That It Wounds Our Own.

People Would Not Long Remain In Social Life If They Were Not The Dupes Of Each Other.