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

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.