We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.