Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.