Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.