Those who do not complain are never pitied.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

The power of doing anything with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Selfishness must always be forgiven ... because there is no hope of a cure.

The less said the better.

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.