Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.