The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.
As long as we love, we can forgive.
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.