It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.