We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.