Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.