Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.