A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

A modest man never talks of himself.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.