There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.