Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.