To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

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

When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.