Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.