It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.