All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

To forget someone means to think of him.