Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

Half talent is no talent.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.