It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

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.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.