To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

The pleasure of love is in loving.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.