We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect..

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion..

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are ….

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work..

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest..

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

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!.

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death..

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them..

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less..

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched..

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude..

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time..

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love..

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it..

We all covet wealth, but not its perils..

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us a….

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….

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed..

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity wil….

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other..