What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.