False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

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.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.