Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.
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!
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.