If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

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.

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

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.