We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.