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.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

There are some who speak one moment before they think

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.