That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.