Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.