Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.
We like to read others but we do not like to be read.
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.