Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity