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

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.