A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.