He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

Men make the best friends.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

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

An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

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