Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

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!

Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.