L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.