One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.