A hug is worth a thousand words.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.