Esteem never makes ingrates.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.