They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

A modest man never talks of himself.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.