We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together..

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely….

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not ….

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been tho….

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely fa….

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone..

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive..

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all..

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things..

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme ….

It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions; but such a talent i….

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness o….

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere..

I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and lo….

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things..

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests..

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much..

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinenc….

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous..

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do..

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest..