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

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

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

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.