Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.