But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

Tis best to build no castles in the air.

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.