The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest