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.

A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

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

Languages are the keys of science.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

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