“It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.”

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

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

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

It’s easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

I think I would find it easier to talk with Nico [Rosenberg] than Lewis [Hamilton], as Lewis is into things that are very distant to me.

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That’s just what interests me.