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.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.