He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

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

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.