Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.