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• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and miserable dinner. -- Jean de La Bruyere
• The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.
  -- Jean de la Bruyere...
• Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth
  money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them....
• It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• Modesty is to merit as shades to figures in a picture
  giving it strength and beauty. -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de La Bruyere
• We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de la Bruyere