It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.