We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

There are good marriages, but no delicious ones.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so.

No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were on one side only.