Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel..

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it..

Out of difficulties grow miracles..

A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with a harlot is sinful. When he falls ill, w….

I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they….

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice..

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression..

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles..

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a ….

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination..

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge o….

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished..

The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable..

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes..

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves..

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management..

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom ….

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?.

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant..

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little..

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the w….