Generosity is the vanity of giving.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.