We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!.

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors ….

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots..

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone..

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher..

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest..

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest..

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends..

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them..

Age whitens hairs, but not sin..

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large..

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait..

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own..

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness..

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give..

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it..

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends..

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul..

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it..

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others..

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to b….