The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.