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| Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty | | Modesty | |
| Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world | | Uncategorized | |
| No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. | | Uncategorized | |
| No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. | | God; Men | |
| One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all. | | Uncategorized | |
| One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. | | Uncategorized | |
| One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive. | | Uncategorized | |
| Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. | | Uncategorized | |
| Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father | | Crime; Poverty; Senses | |
| The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. | | Uncategorized | |
| The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it | | Judgement | |
| The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth | | Truth | |
| The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. | | Uncategorized | |
| The former [Corneille] paints men as they should be, the latter [Racine] paints them as they are. | | Uncategorized | |
| The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? | | Uncategorized | |
| The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. | | Uncategorized | |
