We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time..

Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best ble….

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati ….

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything.….

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the an….

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading..

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less..

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation..

An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude ….

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired..

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almos….

The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you..

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably..

Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir; ….

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it..

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Bo….

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end..

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands..

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them..

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages..