Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.