“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”

“Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.”

“People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.”

“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”

“We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.”

“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”

“We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.”