True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

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

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.