Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.