The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

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

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.