It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

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.

Men make the best friends.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.