Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.