Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.