To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them,….

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men..

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they sile….

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes a….

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit..

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail..

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live..

Born merely for the purpose of digestion..

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories..

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought..

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone..

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does..

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates..

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately..

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himse….

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves..

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in s….

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income..

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer ex….

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one..