The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!