Love can be founded upon Nature only.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.