The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.