What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
We disjoint the mind like the body.
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.