Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

To forget someone means to think of him.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.