Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

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.

A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.

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.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.