The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

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

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.