The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

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

Even women are perfect at the outset.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.