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.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!