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

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.