Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.