Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.