It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.