To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.