The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

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

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

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.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.