Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.