Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.