Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.