It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.