The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.