As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man’s opinion of himself.

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.