Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

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

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

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