Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.