A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.

Men make the best friends.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.