Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.