Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

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

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.