Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.