Without big words, how could many people say small things?.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant..

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it..

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective..

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed..

No woman dares express all she thinks..

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat..

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste..

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it..

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerou….

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded..

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us..

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other..

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us..

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases..

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach..

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant..

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse..

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex..

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it..

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others..