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

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

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

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.