Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.