It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.