It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.
Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.
Hatred is stronger than friendship.
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.